Right Of Way At Road Roundabouts

[campbellab]

Presumably one doesn't get up to speed until most of the way around or off the roundabout?

 

[Matthew_T]

Presumably one doesn't get up to speed until most of the way around or off the roundabout?

Well I am only able to do 22 around it when I can see that there is no traffic coming on the right. More often than not, I am able to just enter the roundabout as there isnt much traffic coming unless it is rush hour.

 

[campbellab]

I cycle most like I'd drive them.. except
1. some stupid busy ones, i'll wait on the left for quiet traffic,then enter like a car.
2. I'll ignore the insane 'cycle lanes with stop' crap that some clowns have put in, they just make it difficult for the drivers/cyclists.. ( I have waited, ONCE, because the vehicle joining was a left hand drive cleaning thing and he couldnt see me, so I just waited.)
3. a couple of roundabouts, i'll take a ped crossing in heavy traffic because of traffic levels, speed of traffic.

4. Watch out for medium/large roundabouts without raised centre islands where timing wise you'd be fine entering the roundabout with someone else to your right, if they take the correct line around, but will often drive at you across the centre (or even on the wrong side of the road at times). Guess I see it in the car as well, you tend to expect it at the really small roundabouts but less so when they're larger.

 

[Peowpeowpeowlasers]

I cycle around roundabouts just as I drive around them, except I pay more attention to what other people are doing. Never had an issue tbh, although some roundabouts I don't bother with. For instance:

http://goo.gl/maps/yXpwh

I approach from the west, on Pickmere Lane, to continue east on Tabley Hall Lane. Strictly speaking I should turn left (you can't go straight across) and use the roundabout to come back around, but there's no way in hell I'm mixing it with HGVs fresh off the M6. So I wait for a gap and sprint across the road instead. Seems like madness but I reckon I'm safer doing that.

 

[jonny jeez]

I cycle around roundabouts just as I drive around them, except I pay more attention to what other people are doing. Never had an issue tbh, .

Ditto.

Take a sensible and clear position that reflects your route (on the right if turning right etc). Signal, make eye contact with any traffic to your left (approaching) and ride confidently (not partucularly fast mind ...if you dont want to), then plenty of rear obs and obs to the nearside before clear singals to move left for your exit.

I sometimes convert my left signal (on exiting) to point at drivers that I feel are considering jumping in from the left as I exit, seems to make them stop.

j

 

[on the road]

Sorry for cross posting, but Maylian, do you mean don't do roundabouts like this?

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5N90zkDqfw&feature=plcp

A bit close to the kerb.

 

[on the road]

How do you take a roundabout fast at 22mph if theres traffic approaching from the right?

It depends really on the type of roundabout.

 

[sabian92]

If you don't know how to ride around a roundabout I'd have a look at the highway code and possibly some driving lessons if you're old enough for the sake of your own safety.

 

[Peter Armstrong]

Get into a high gear, go into a sprint, hit that roundabout like a mother and hope you dont hit anything.

 

[wintonbina]

Roundabouts are easy until some Mother doesn't see you and tries to get across before the car behind you!

 

[machew]

Or doesn't see that it's a mini roundabout and either drives over it or drives he wrong way round it

 

[dawesome]

Or, when there are two lanes approaching, you take primary in the left straight-on lane, and a driver overtakes in the turn right lane then goes straight on.

 

[ianrauk]

I very rarely have any trouble with roundabouts in London. Approach then as you would as car, indicate clearly and you will not have a problem.

Of course you still do get the wayward idiots who don't look or wait for you. But more often then not in London it's fine.

 

[dawesome]

Old Street.
Shudder.

 

[ianrauk]

Old Street.
Shudder.

My nemesis is Elephant & Castle...double shudder